1/♾️
Reading @TimAlberta's Iliad-like @TheAtlantic chronicle of the walking, semi-sentient disaster that is @CNN CEO Chris Licht, I kept thinking this would be the last paragraph:
"Finally, came the call. Licht was out. At least he'd have more time to spend with his trainer."
Reading @TimAlberta's Iliad-like @TheAtlantic chronicle of the walking, semi-sentient disaster that is @CNN CEO Chris Licht, I kept thinking this would be the last paragraph:
"Finally, came the call. Licht was out. At least he'd have more time to spend with his trainer."
2/♾️
It is hard to imagine that a profile of anybody less egregiously antisocial than a serial killer could begin with this - Licht dismissing the complexity of the key to a now 8-year-long fascist coup designed to destroy American democracy - AND THEN GO DOWNHILL FROM HERE:
It is hard to imagine that a profile of anybody less egregiously antisocial than a serial killer could begin with this - Licht dismissing the complexity of the key to a now 8-year-long fascist coup designed to destroy American democracy - AND THEN GO DOWNHILL FROM HERE:
3/♾️
From the start (BTW forgive me - link: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…) Licht doesn't understand what the American journalism he professes to cherish, MUST do:
It MUST advocate.
It MUST advocate for democracy
And ADVOCATING is not partisanship🤦🏼♂️
The shit HAS hit the fan, Dummy
From the start (BTW forgive me - link: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…) Licht doesn't understand what the American journalism he professes to cherish, MUST do:
It MUST advocate.
It MUST advocate for democracy
And ADVOCATING is not partisanship🤦🏼♂️
The shit HAS hit the fan, Dummy
4/♾️
From the beginning of Licht-CNN (pick the worst, least principled, least self-aware mouse you've ever known; Now envision him chosen to lead a group vital to freedom's defense) I have sensed even I was unaware of some disastrous influence.
I was right. FRANK F'ING LUNTZ?
From the beginning of Licht-CNN (pick the worst, least principled, least self-aware mouse you've ever known; Now envision him chosen to lead a group vital to freedom's defense) I have sensed even I was unaware of some disastrous influence.
I was right. FRANK F'ING LUNTZ?
5/♾️
Understand that the "genius producer" reputation at MSNBC was forged (all meanings) by Licht himself.
There, he seemed to have just one job: henchman for @JoeNBC: damaging @maddow and me behind our backs, protecting the GOP.
Now he really DOES think he's THE journalist:
Understand that the "genius producer" reputation at MSNBC was forged (all meanings) by Licht himself.
There, he seemed to have just one job: henchman for @JoeNBC: damaging @maddow and me behind our backs, protecting the GOP.
Now he really DOES think he's THE journalist:
6/♾️
No journalist - let alone the self-appointed Defender of Journalism™️ can allow himself or his network to look like it made a deal to provide a candidate with a live crowd of cheerleaders.
Clearly "Extra Trumpy" Licht sold out CNN's objectivity to Trump. This is fireable:
No journalist - let alone the self-appointed Defender of Journalism™️ can allow himself or his network to look like it made a deal to provide a candidate with a live crowd of cheerleaders.
Clearly "Extra Trumpy" Licht sold out CNN's objectivity to Trump. This is fireable:
7/♾️
Alberta captures the fundamental Licht flaw: his unassailable self-confidence, without any actual skill.
Therefore all criticism of him is wrong. Therefore all critics are plotters. Therefore: paranoia
@DylanByers is a Licht apologist who has echoed the "genius" nonsense
Alberta captures the fundamental Licht flaw: his unassailable self-confidence, without any actual skill.
Therefore all criticism of him is wrong. Therefore all critics are plotters. Therefore: paranoia
@DylanByers is a Licht apologist who has echoed the "genius" nonsense
8/♾️
What happens next at CNN?
Read the piece. You may say what I would say to Licht:
Don't buy, rent. If you already bought, sell. If you rented, get out of the lease and get a hotel room - because your boss won't give an on-the-record interview defending you #ByeFelicia
What happens next at CNN?
Read the piece. You may say what I would say to Licht:
Don't buy, rent. If you already bought, sell. If you rented, get out of the lease and get a hotel room - because your boss won't give an on-the-record interview defending you #ByeFelicia
9/♾️
Lastly:
Chris Licht HAS accomplished something he told Alberta he aspired to: as the ratings (and @CNN's self-defenestration into, at times, 4th Place behind NewsMax) suggest - people NO LONGER "think of CNN, Fox, and MSNBC in the same sentence."
Well done Licht!
Lastly:
Chris Licht HAS accomplished something he told Alberta he aspired to: as the ratings (and @CNN's self-defenestration into, at times, 4th Place behind NewsMax) suggest - people NO LONGER "think of CNN, Fox, and MSNBC in the same sentence."
Well done Licht!
10/♾️
(I will go into greater length on the piece, and Licht, in Monday's Countdown podcast)
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
(I will go into greater length on the piece, and Licht, in Monday's Countdown podcast)
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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